A Piece of My Mind

Lives Inside of Boxes

JAMA 10.1001/jama.2026.4906

April 23, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT

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In this narrative medicine essay, a retired family physician muses over the predigital tools he collected to help him meet his patients’ health challenges and reflects on how much medicine was integrated into his own life.

Corresponding Author: Matthew Davis, MD (drmattd@aol.com).

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